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Russian actor, director blast off to make first movie in space [Video]

Dennis Adu — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 11:02:58 +0000

A Russian actor and a film director have rocketed into space on a landmark mission to make the world’s first movie in orbit.

Actor Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko blasted off on Tuesday for the International Space Station (ISS) together with cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, a veteran of three space missions.

Their Russian Soyuz MS-19 lifted off as scheduled at 08:55 GMT from the Russian space launch facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, and successfully reached the designated orbit.

The Soyuz MS-19 rocket with three Russian crewmates aboard launched at 4:55am ET today to the station under clear blues skies in Kazakhstan. More… https://t.co/DIpFPGawCs pic.twitter.com/gcbnXzgrHf
— International Space Station (@Space_Station) October 5, 2021

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Peresild and Klimenko are set to film scenes of a new movie titled Challenge, in which a surgeon, played by Peresild, rushes to the space station to save a crew member with a heart condition.

After 12 days on the space outpost, they are set to return to Earth with another Russian cosmonaut.

Hours before takeoff, the trio arrived at the launchpad clad in heavy spacesuits, waving to crowds as they boarded the spacecraft.

“For me, space is alluring, welcoming and has no boundaries,” said Peresild, who was chosen from 3,000 candidates for the role.

Shipenko, who has made several commercially successful movies, described their fast-track, four-month preparation for the flight as tough.

“Of course, we couldn’t make many things at the first try, and sometimes even at a third attempt. But it’s normal,” he said.

Former KMA Mayor, Osei Assibey gets new appointment

Gertrude Okyere — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 09:52:23 +0000

President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed immediate past Mayor of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Osei Assibey Antwi, as the Executive Director of the National Service Scheme.

The appointment was announced in a letter dated September 17, 2021, and signed by the Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Opare.

“I am pleased to inform you that the President has appointed you to act as the Executive Director of the Ghana National Service Scheme (the Scheme), pending receipt of the constitutionally required advice of the governing board of the Scheme, given in consultation with the Public Services Commission,” part of the letter read.

Mr Antwi, who was seen as the man for the KMA job, pulled out of the race after serving a four-year term in Akufo-Addo’s first administration.

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He succeeds Mustapha Ussif, the Member of Parliament for Yagaba-Kubori, who doubles as Minister for Youth and Sports.

Read the statement below:

GBC Director General asked to proceed on leave

Dorcas Abedu-Kennedy — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 08:30:53 +0000

The Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) Dr. Kwame Akuffo Anoff-Ntow has been asked to proceed on leave by the governing board of the state broadcaster.
The directive to Dr. Anoff-Ntow was issued Monday evening, according to a source with knowledge of the development.
He is in his 13^th month as the Director General of the state broadcaster.
The directive, the source explained was because of the Corporation’s unpopular resolve to prosecute people who will default in the payment of the mandatory Television license fee.
The TV licensing Act 1966 (NLCD 89) of Ghana mandates the collection of license fees from persons or households owning TV sets. The collection of the fee was reintroduced in 2015.
Domestic TV users are to pay between GH¢36 and GH¢60 for one or more TV sets in a household while TV set repairers and sales outlets are to pay an annual sum of between GHc60 to GHc240.
Commercial TV operators are to pay GHc36 per annum for each TV set.
The Chief Justice recently set up a special TV License Court to handle cases of defaulters.
The decision has courted huge public outcry with the majority declaring they will not pay leading to the governing board to intervene ordering the Corporation to halt its plans.
“Following an evaluation of the situation has instructed the management of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) not to pursue any activity or set of processes, leading to the prosecution of any individual for the non-payment of the Television license fee,” said the board when it made the order.
About the new GBC’s DG
Dr. Akuffo Anoff-Ntow has close to two decades of professional experience in broadcasting as both a practitioner and scholar.
His professional experience spans public broadcasting at GBC as well as consulting for other media and communication interests across the world.
As a trained television producer/director, he has produced, directed and executive produced many television programs across several genres.
Dr. Anoff-Ntow, therefore, comes to the role of the Director General with intimate knowledge of the editorial and operational workings of global public broadcasting. As a member of the International Public Television (INPUT) forum, Dr. Anoff-Ntow has undertaken many international projects around best practice in public broadcasting and media. He was one of the 16 program experts from around the world who planned and led sessions at INPUT international conferences in Germany, USA, Switzerland and South Africa.
As a communications scholar, Dr. Anoff-Ntow’s research interests include newsroom journalistic practices, the political economy of public broadcasting in Africa, communication policy, and the politics of visual representations. He holds a Doctor of Philophy Degree in Communications Studies from the University of Calgary in Canada where his doctoral thesis topic focused on “Public Broadcasting and the politics of media in Ghana: a case study of the GBC.”
He is a member of the Ghana Journalists Association, the Canadian Communications Association and sits on the Board of the African Centre for Parliamentary affairs, ACEPA.

Finance Ministry’s budget director sacked

Dorcas Abedu-Kennedy — Thu, 11 May 2017 08:05:41 +0000

Sampson Asare Fianko, Director of Budget at the Ministry of Finance, has been relieved of his post, BUSINESS GUIDE has learnt.

Mr Fianko would be succeeded by Eva Mends, Head of Public Finance Management reforms at the Ministry of Finance.

As at the time of going to press, highly placed sources at the Ministry said an official statement was being prepared to announce the change.

The sources also said a lot more reshuffling had been made at the various offices at the Ministry.

Prior his appointment as Director of Budget at the Finance Ministry in October 2016, Mr Asare Fianko was the Deputy Controller and Accountant General in-charge of Finance and Administration.

He has over 18 years’ experience in financial management both in the private and public sector.

He has also served in various capacities at the Controller and Account Generals’ Department, Ministry of Roads and Transport, Communications, Office of Parliament, among others.

In the case of Ms Mends, she is a product of the University of Ghana majoring in Political Science with Economics.

She also holds a Master Degree in Public Administration from GIMPA, and is a graduate of Harvard University in the US.